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Thursday, March 25, 2010

With all the classic homes there are in New England, there are also lovely porches that many people have enclosed to make an extended living space. This space often times incorporates the outside exterior of the house. The exterior sometimes has shack work, sometimes it is left natural or can be painted a "fun porch color." The porch setting usaully will have wrap around windows creating a very sunny or bright room. It can be screened in the summer and sometimes even used as a sleeping porch on very hot days. We would love to have one that would be open and bright in the summer and in the winter have a field stone fireplace at one end so that people could gather around and enjoy the view from the enclosed porch. Of course dining alfresco in an enclosed porch is also wonderful and much more causal than the more formal dining.

I absolutely adore screened in porches! Growing up we had one when we lived on the water, and it was so nice to be able to enjoy being outside, but without the pesky bugs and the inconvenience of having to bring in the cushions every time it rained!

here in atlanta, i'd love to have a screened in porch so i can eat outside and not be swamped by mosquitoes! it drives me crazy and makes me REALLY miss california in the summer time. hopefully i'll get it in my next house . . .

Hello and thank you for visiting my blog and your sweet comments! I too love enclosed "cozy" porches. I see many in my travels and I am charmed by them. I basically am "charmed" by most of New England!

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